If by heredity or by exposure we reach the point of saying: "Eureka! I know the answer. I am right - We are right." That is exactly the time we must question our righteousness!
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این یک شنبه، ١٢ اپریل، مصادف با روز رستاخیز حضرت عیسی مسیح میباشد (Easter Sunday). این مناسبت شاد را به تمام مسیحیان، بخصوص برادران و خواهران ارمنی و اسوری ایرانیمان را، صمیمانه تبریک می گوییم - موق باشید!
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IAAB Conference in Berkeley-Day 2.
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FUN
Photo essay: 13 Bedar in Northern Virginia
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No VA >>>
Barcelona is one of my favorite cities, and the beauty of Gaudi's architecture dominates the city.
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Loss and separation from parent(s) is a traumatic and stressful experience for children
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PERSIAN GULF
Traveling to Dubai and Sharjah
Dubai likes to see itself as the center of commerce, investment, and even culture, in the Persian Gulf. It is where the global rich can opt to become even richer and where investors can live out their dreams. It is also a place where people from the poorer parts of Asia flock to make a living and send money home. In the process Dubai has become the center of everything we love to hate: globalization at its worst, consumerism at its most extreme. Whereas old Dubai, situated around the Creek, has retained some of its charm, the new endlessly sprawling Dubai is a glitzy, unreal mega-Disney world focused on high-end shopping, leisure and entertainment
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PERSIAN GULF
Photo essay: Traveling to Dubai and Sharjah
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Fariba Amini >>>
Childhood Memories - Part 1
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PAHLAVI
Interview with Dr. Abbas Milani about his Book, "Eminent Persians"
"The title, Eminent Persians, is a borrowing that’s from a famous book in English called 'Eminent Victorians.' It’s by Lytton Strachey and it is a mini biography of Victorian figures – a dozen of them - and I had read the book. It’s a very wonderful book and I loved the title. And Eminent Persians simply had in my mind a better echo, and for a title one of the things you look for is an echo... I generally believe that 'Persian,' which was what we were called in all the Indo-European languages before that infamous decision of 1935 by Reza Shah to change it. It’s a much better way of referring to us. It has 2500 years of history behind it..."
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NOVEL
First novel I read by an Iranian-American male. I found it refreshing and unique.
Rooftops of Tehran touches on every human experience from love to loss. Seraji unabashedly poses the questions for which answers simply did not exist. His deep awareness of the human spirit shows through Pasha’s character, who while naïve, is a logical and extremely emotional character trying desperately to make sense of the insanity around him. The reader is lost in the tale just as Pasha is lost and thus finds himself more than simply empathizing with the protagonist. The reader feels the emotions just as deeply as Pasha does – thanks to the brilliant story-telling of Seraji. Seraji captures the delicate and poignant action of Pasha to plant a rose bush in the street for the martyr from the neighborhood
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